US Politics

Gutted. I'm always Toad in Mario Kart, I'm never going to be able to choose him again :(

Apple has avoided Trump tariffs on a few products.
Tim Cook, Apple CEO had dinner with the Trumps recently.
If you are one of Trump's buddies you get special treatment. If you are a small businessman you are faced with 10% cost increases.

There's a theory that Toad is not actually on Mario's side after all, and is in fact evil. I'm not sure if this is in line with him looking like Trump's diminutive member or not

(edit, double post)

Got any links to articles about that? Curious to read more about it. I thought Apple was squarely against Trump, at least that's what I've read / seen so far

That's Nintendo ruined for a generation

NSFW
http://arcadesushi.com/files/2013/04/Brittany-DiBiaggio-Nintendo.jpg

Fuckin hell,the NSFW bar is pretty low these days.

Yoshi it is then!

#notmyproudestfap

#notmyproudestfap

Did some reading on this.

Here's a good summary: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/11/business/trade-war.html

This quote is interesting:

President Trump has ordered a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods,
meaning nearly half of all Chinese imports into the United States will
face tariffs.

As Apple is one of Americas most successful and important companies, both in terms of money and PR, and the fact that they "only" add tariffs to half of the goods from China, I'm not surprised they're exempt.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/donald-trump-urged-spain-to-build-the-wall-across-the-sahara

It’s pretty simple: the base loves him, not as a person but as a policy maker. In many people’s minds to find as an effective Republican president you would have to go back to Reagan and before that Lincoln. Tax cuts, deregulation, and now the most extreme (at least in terms of regulation and labor relations) Supreme Court justice yet. That’s God, Guns, and Gays right there, plus the country clubbers and the 1%. Immigration is another winning category.

Not to bring the Corbyn thread in here, but can you not imagine a scenario where a Labour government continues to have anti-Semitic scandals and yet remains in power due to the fact it’s also delivering on its promises to the left? I don’t think the left is quite as craven but after so many years of Tory rule it’s not inconceivable.

Do not underestimate the profound hypocracy of the evangelical right wing.

I swear journos read this thread and go and write articles based on our chit chat.

Hypocracy in action

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/21/christian-conservatives-trump-values-voters

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/spokesman-gop-kavanaugh-nomination-resigns-has-been-accused-harassment-past-n912156

It’s pretty simple: the base loves him, not as a person but as a policy maker.

I'm pretty sure you have that the wrong way round. The base doesn't care that his North Korea diplomacy has been a total failure, they surely don't care about any of his fiscal "policies". They like him because of the way he behaves and talks, not about what he actually says. They like him for upsetting liberals and "elites", for refusing to believe that anything is hard to understand or needs anything but the simplest, crudest solutions, for being racist, for being all the worst parts of Homer Simpson and none of the good parts. They don't care that he is dishonest and corrupt, which they assume is just a given - he's their kind of dishonest and corrupt.

He was spot on when he said "I could shoot somebody and not lose voters". If he did, he'd be their kind of murderer.

Spot on! rep etc

If he did, he'd be their kind of vigilante.

ftfy

Pretty astonishing...

https://twitter.com/michaelavenatti/status/1044032678951960576?s=21

Where the hell is Avenatti getting all this compromat from?

his name seems to be cropping up a lot when it comes to sex scandals....

Sickening

Obviously because he's a "creepy porn lawyer"...

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1043913767678091264